And prays on the most righteous of His creation, Muhammad and his Household
and his mates the honourable and guided

(It is)

About what concerns a bunch of prophets, and viceroys, in some of their
own matters

(Know)

that our believe in prophets, and their viceroys and the Angels (PUT),
they are infallible and purified from any impurities and they don't guilt
either a big one or a small one, and never refuse the commandments of God
and do whatever they are commanded with, and whoever refuse the idea of
their infallibility in any situation then he did miss them.
And our believe in them is that they are described with completeness
of wisdom and honour and patience and bravery and so on and never described
with less aspects in any of their matters.
Then, the prophets and viceroys and the purified Imams and the like
before them (PUT), it is doubtless that their times are busy with God and
their hearts are full of Him and their minds are connected to the heavens
world and always watching for God, for he said (The prophet PUH): worship
God as you see Him, so if you don't see Him, He sees you. So, they are
always watching, attending toward Him, the Exalted, with their total.
Whatever is apparent in their prays (psalms) and their speeches and
their books and the other of their sayings about falling in sin it is just
to behave humbly for God and it includes the maximum thankfulness for Him,
the Exalted. It is mentioned about our prophet (PUH) that he used to exhaust
himself in worshipping, so one of his wives asked him: didn't God forgive
you for whatever was made and whatever will be from your sins? So he said
to her: Yes, but shouldn't I be a thankful slave? Until The Holy called
him by His call "Ta. Ha. We have not revealed unto thee (Muhammad) this
Qur'an that thou shouldst be distressed"(Ta Ha:1-2) meaning not to exhaust
yourself and spend the maximum of your power in worshipping.
In it also there is a teaching for people and directing them towards
Him, the Exalted, and to take people away from pride and preventing the
worshipping and praying, and to be humble for Him, the Exalted. How shall
we consider whatever comes from them (the prophets PUT) from deeds and
sayings what is apparent to be a sin that is indeed a sin towards God,
the Exalted? God forbid! And they are more honourable and faithful than
that level to be blamed for a sin.
Aren't they the commanders by God over the creatures and His loyals
for His laws and His religion and the callers to obey Him, and God put
them for this purpose, so they are the tongue of God that speaks to His
slaves and Its translator to His creation. So, how come they do a sin and
how come they become like normal people and not destinctive from them,
and they are the ones who take care of His commandments to His creation,
and is it rightful by logic for them to be loyals for God over His creation
and someone would say to them "Enjoin ye righteousness upon mankind while
ye yourselves forget"(Al-Baqarah: 44) Are they mentioned with sin?
It is the reason to let people go away from them. Doesn't the sinner
get thrown by stones if he tried to forbid people of the sins he did himself,
or gets his head in the sand and told to him: discipline yourself and your
people before you try to discipline others? So, how come they can be loyals
to God and they are polluted with sins and people should have gone away
from them and deny their deeds?
Don't people understand the claim of sins to the saints of God (apostles
of God, faithful people), don't they stop? Was God unable to Make infallible
people and destinctive from others to take care of His laws? No, and God
forbid! But He did not Send any messenger and Made a viceroy after him
except he was purified and infallible and without any sins and mistakes
or impurity.
So, how do we consider anything done by them as a guilt and it is a
sin and that their humilating for themselves for God and sanctifying Him
is because that they are like all creatures and their Lord did not Make
them special or Care much about them. Look with your heart to some of the
slaves in this life whenever they refuse the commands of their masters
and their masters heard about that, won't they be blamed by people and
deserved for punishment as they think. So what do you think of the Lord
of lords and the King of kings that nothing can be hidden from Him from
his kingdom on earth or in heavens, and for this he pointed out (PUH) [maybe
'Ali ben Abi Tâlib is meant here] : the good deeds of the faithful
are the sins of the close relative (?).
Some said: it might be said that doing something undesirable and leaving
the desirable deed and do some of the allowed things might look like in
the eyes of the infallible persons like prophets and saints (viceroys)
that they are sins so they sanctify God (asking for forgiveness) and if
they did it again they become more sad for it and have great sadness in
their holy souls. Look with the eye of your heart to the psalms (prays)
of the Prince of Believers (PUH) and the psalms (prays) of Al-Imam Al-Sajjâd
Zain Al-'âbideen[i.e. 'Ali ben Al-Husain ben 'Ali ben Abi Tâlib
PUH] in Al-Saheefah Al-Sajjâdiyah [it is a name of a book that contains
prays and psalms of the Imam] and his psalm that mentioned by Abi Hamzah
Al-Þomâly and to his boredom in his prays and the hard sadness
over him and the great sorrow of him for what he did beside his Lord and
others than him from his fathers and children and how great is their humilation
and their perishableness in the Self of God for they had the deep view
into His might and His power and pride and they know very well how great
He is and how gracious He is. So, for this, most of their deeds in their
worshipping and prayers were for someone that was sure of the torture and
punishment. As if he commited every crime and done the great sins.
From this concept was the mistake of our father Adam (PUH) where the
fobid of eating from the tree inside paradise was only for honourable purposes
and not a strict forbid as for a sin. As it is mentioned and approved in
books made for this subject (the infallibility of prophets) by 'Alam Al-Huda
Al-Sayid Al-Mortadhâ and others, check out. And God forbid that prophets
and the messengers and the saints (viceroys) and the Arch-Angels may commit
any sin and they are the ones that were assigned by God to take care of
His religion and the callers and the ones that take care of His slaves
and His rulers over His creations.
Then if we did accept that they do sins and guilt so then we don't
mind them to do the great sins for which punishments must be applied without
any difference. So who will do the punishment of them? Only the one that
takes care of religion would do the punishment, so would he do it over
himself? Or someone else would do it over him by an order from him? (Answer
me may God have mercy upon you, isn't that one who claims this shy of God
for this?). Or maybe the one who claims this have some sickness in his
soul to let other wear this dress [meaning infallibility] and let others
take their places instead (places of prophets), Those who do wrong will
come to know by what a (great) reverse they will be overturned! And your
Lord is not in the least unjust for the slaves.
Then do not forget that all the prophets and saints (viceroys) had
been oppressed and hurt and no one answered their calls except few from
their nations (Few of My bondmen are thankful) (Saba': 13)
Then what does it mean God's saying "Lo! We verily do help Our messengers,
and those who believe, in the life of the world and on the day when the
witnesses arise"(Al-Mu'min, Ghâfir: 51)? Al-Imâm Al-Sâdiq
(PUH) was asked about the meaning of this holy phrase and he answered:
this is, and I swear by God, in the day of coming back, didn't you know
that lot of the prophets of God did not get a victory in life and the viceroys
after them got killed and never helped in life, but they will gain victory
in the day of coming back before the doomsday. And the witnesses are the
Imâms (PUT).
The tidings coming from the Holy Household for this subject are a lot
and in brief it points out that the return of the prophets to the life
after death and before the doomsday is something essential and no way out
of it to get revenge from their enemies that wronged them and hurt them
and fought them and didn't believe in them and set wars against them and
took their rights from them: but when that is going to happen? It would
be at the day when the witnesses arise and they are the purified Imâms
from the Household of Muhammad (PUH) and that is when the "awaited" appears,
the ruler of the current time that we are in and he is the Imâm that
his name is the same as the messenger of God (PUH) and his surname is the
same as well and he is the son of Al-Hasan ben 'Ali ben Muhammad ben 'Ali
ben Musa ben Ja'far ben Muhammad ben 'Ali ben Al-Husain ben 'Ali ben Abi
Tâlib (PUT) (the one born in year 256 Hejira) in Sâmarra' in
Iraq.
Al-Sayid Al-Jazâ'iri said in his tales:
The meaning of the messengers in the holy phrase "Lo! We verily do
help Our messengers" is the prophets. The apparent from this Holy Speech
and whatever comes in its meaning is a sign that all the prophets will
come back to life in the small doomsday and God will give them victory
by power and Angels over their enemies and the enemies of the Household
of Muhammad (PUH), and God will give life again to their nations that hurt
them and the bad ones from Umayyads [Bani Umayya or the Children of Umayya,
who had a kingdom in Syria and the surroundings, they were usually marked
with aggressive nature and even killed the grandson of the prophet, but
still some people deny this although it is a well known fact in history!]
and whoever accepted their deeds from their children and others. Also God
will give life to whoever had a pure faith from the nations to let them
win the rewards of victory and fights and live in the kingdom of Muhammad's
Household (PUH). [here comes a holy phrase but I couldn't locate it in
Quran, maybe the writer didn't memorize it so well!]
Then all the prophets since Adam (PUH) until their end and the master
of messengers Muhammad the Chosen (PUH), and they count for one hundred
thousands and twenty four thousands prophets and one hundred and twenty
four thousands viceroys, for every prophet has a viceroy and their masters
are five upon which life went around and they are the owners of laws and
whoever came with repeated laws they were copied from the previous and
they are Noah, Abraham, Moses, Jesus and Muhammad and they are the "prophets
of constancy", may peace be upon them all. This is what was pointed out
by tidings and what was said by our scholars and as said by Al-Sayed Al-Jazâ'iri
and whatever points the opposite of that it would be carried by self trial
for interpretation. About the messengers, as mentioned by the prophet (PUH)
and the sure paths that they were (three hundreds and thirteen) messengers..etc
and it is probable also that the books are one hundred and four books,
and twenty one books were revealed on Adam (PUH).
It is mentioned also that it was revealed on Seth the gift of God (PUH),
by God, fifty books and on Enoch (PUH) thirty books, and on Abraham twenty
books, and Revealed (God) Torah, Bible, Psalms and Quran and this speech
been repeated many times so no doubt about its contents. And they were
called the "ones of constancy", and they are the five masters but because
they were sent to the east and west and to people and Djinns and this meaning
is mentioned in lot of tidings and mentioned by lot of Muslims scholars,
by Ibn 'Abbâs and Qotâdah.
And they say that they were called "ones of constancy" because they
were the first to believe in God in the world of atoms and believed in
every prophet that would come before or after them and decided to have
patience inspite of calling them liars and being hurt. And said also that
they were called like that because they were ones of laws and regulations
so that every prophet that came after Noah (PUH) was on his (Noah's) laws
and path and a follower to his books until the time of Abraham (PUH) and
then until the time of Moses the son of Amram (PUH) then until the time
of Jesus the son of Mary (PUH) and then until the time of Muhammad (PUH).
Then the difference between the messenger and the prophet is that the
messenger is the one that gets inspiration from God the Exalted by a message
or a book or allowances and non-allowances and so on, and so he is a messenger
from God to the ones who are sent to from His slaves and creation. The
messenger could be non-human but it may be an Angel like Gabriel and Azrael
and others (PUT). Or it may be a bird like the hoopoe of Solomon the son
of David (PUH) and so on either from God or from the creature as it appears.
And the prophet is the one that God inspires and Guides him and whatever
God wants from him flows in his heart without any doubt or imagination
and he listens to the sound of Angels in his dreams but he can't see them,
and the messenger also can dream about Angels and listens to them and also
see them as we see each other. But the viceroy that is appointed from God
to take care of matters after the messenger can hear the Angels but can't
see them. It is mentioned in Al-Saheeh [seems a book name] from Al-Ahwal
said: I heard Zorârah ben A'yon asking Abâ Ja'far Al-Bâqir
(PUH) so he said to him: tell me about the messenger and the prophet and
the speaker. So he said in his answer: the messenger is the one that Gabriel
(PUH) come to him so he can talk to him and see, and the prophet is the
one that see in his dreams as it was for Abraham (PUH) and as the prophet
of God (Muhammad PUH) did see the reasons of prophecy before getting inspired
until Gabriel (PUH) did come to him from God with the message and and when
Muhammad (PUH) got the prophecy and the message from God, Gabriel (PUH)
used to come to him and talk to him about it, and the speaker is the one
that speaks and listens but do not see in his dreams nor in his awakeness.
What is understood from the trusted speeches that one person can have
the prophecy and the message and the imamship [imam = viceroy] like our
prophet Muhammad (PUH) and Abraham (PUH) and others than them, and Abraham
was a prophet and not a viceroy until God said to him "Lo! I have appointed
thee a leader for mankind. (Abraham) said: And of my offspring (will there
be leaders) ? He said: My covenant includeth not wrong-doers" (Al-Baqarah:
124) and it is that who ever is wrong and worshipping idols will not get
the covenant of God so won't be a leader (imam) taking care of matters
and a viceroy for the messenger for his nation and whoever the messenger
was sent to, and so he won't be appointed by God for this purpose to save
the religion and the laws after the messenger is lost, so he won't be good
for imamship (caliphate) after him (the messenger) and doing the things
after him except these who are purified from a pure descendants. Because
imamship is the general leadership over all the creations from human beings
and Djinns and it is not to be except from God, the Exalted, and by His
commandments, and He supported the imam with miracles and virtues and he
must be the most intellegent among people and the most brave and the most
faithful one and the most eloquent the knows the most about everything
and about everything that the creation needs from living purposes and have
the knowledge of every tongue and language and can speak it better than
its natives even. There are other stuff concerning the imamship that the
human brain can't take nor bear but only the special of them, so imamship
is better than prophecy and more honourable and higher with no doubt.
Then our book that is between your hands, is to obtain some of the
conditions of prophets and messengers that were mentioned in Quran by names
or by some of their characteristics, and Quran may point to someone by
his character only and the Muhammedan laws (tales) mention him by name
and person. We may mention a lot of them that Quran did not mention but
the tales come to mention them where Quran did not mention of prophets
except few of them that do not exceed forty almost. Then the dependance
in obtaining their conditions was on the Muhammedan tales that were reached
by the trusted persons who interpreted it and by the tidings from the Household
of Muhammad (PUT) that were taken from the trusted books and persons, with
a notification of what was taken from the Torah and the Bible.
Lot of people wrote about this subject but it is a great sorrow that
I did not see any of such writings that would satisfy, but it was the opposite.
Lot of them mixed things together and lost the truth and deformed the beauty
of such thing and so made others be away from catching some of its seas.
And no one of its subjects' matters would be without a collection of the
thin and the fat and edited with weird stuff and picked from it several
straws or written with ill hand, so it looks with an ill eye and ill heart
inclined away from the path of truth.
So there were no subject that keeps up its own matters or collects
its own requirements. But this one between your hands (and thanks be to
God, for Him be the pretty praises) we were lucky to get it organized and
check all of its contents to its certain limits except few which, for necessity,
had to be planted other than its position, and God is the Guider to the
path of truth.